Williamsburg, July 17, 1779. Sir, I some time ago enclosed to you a printed copy of an order of Council, by which Governor Hamilton was to be confined in irons, in close jail, which has occasioned a letter from General Phillips, of which the enclosed is a copy. The General seems to think that a…
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British Account of the Burning of Fairfield
From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol II. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. A British writer gives the following account of the burning of Fairfield:—”About five o’clock in the afternoon [July 8] the British troops landed about a mile and a half west of the fort at Fairfield. One division, consisting of…
Bonnel’s Attack on Greenwich
From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol II. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. June 19.—Yesterday morning, about four o’clock, thirty-two refugees, commanded by Captain Bonnel and other officers, landed at Greenwich, in Connecticut. A thick fog favored their entrance, and they marched through the town undiscovered; but the rebel guard being at…
Sons of Liberty in New York
From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol II. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. July 10.—Still the rebels cherish one another with the assurances of eating their next Christmas dinner in New York, (peradventure in the provost.) Indeed, Mr. Washington has declared he will very soon visit that capital with his army, as…
Collier’s and Tryon’s Address
From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol II. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. The following is the address to the inhabitants of Connecticut by Commodore Sir George Collier and Major General William Tryon:—”The ungenerous and wanton insurrection against the sovereignty of Great Britain, into which this colony has been deluded by the…